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Collapsed Arctic ice shelf adds 'exclamation point' to dire climate trends, say scientists

The loss of the St. Patrick's Bay ice caps, located on Ellesmere Island, is a warning that "everything is changing up there," says scientist Mark Serreze.
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Coastal GasLink gets green light to start pipeline work near Unist’ot’en Healing Centre

BC approves impact studies and calls for consultation with Wet’suwet’en as work proceeds in contested area.
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Russian Indigenous groups call on Elon Musk not to buy battery metals from Nornickel

Tesla is a world leader in electric cars, while Nornickel is a global leader in environmental damage. This doesn't match, claims Aborigen Forum.

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British Columbia’s looming extinction crisis

British Columbia has well over 2,000 species at risk of disappearing yet has no endangered species law.

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Former B.C. premier Christy Clark on board of company proposing LNG terminal in Alaska

New company wants to build floating terminal to export B.C.'s fracked natural gas to Asia.

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How diseases sweep through the sea

For marine mammals, viral and bacterial outbreaks are on the rise.

www.hakaimagazine.com

Farms can’t save the planet

U.S. senators, McDonald's, Microsoft, and the agribusiness lobby are pushing the dangerous myth that carbon storage in American farmland will stave off climate catastrophe.

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How Mike Pompeo built a blood-for-oil pipeline

The State Department, a conservative-connected shell company, and a key Kurdish crime family team up to siphon Syrian oil for U.S. investors.
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Italy resort lifts alert on melting glacier threat

An Italian alpine resort on Sunday lifted a state of alert declared last week over fears that a chunk of glacier on the Mont Blanc mountain range might crash down on them.

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Carolyn Kissane: What Trump got wrong by pushing coal

During Trump’s presidency, the U.S. has remained the world’s premiere oil and gas producer. But coal has continued to struggle.
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Amazon’s Jeff Bezos creates Fellowship Ventures for $10 billion climate change strategy

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos quietly created a new company to help execute his $10 billion pledge to combat climate change, Recode has learned, offering a clue into the plan known as the Bezos Earth Fund, which has been shrouded in secrecy since it was announced half a year ago.

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Inside Biden's network of climate advisers

The candidate is getting advice from past Obama officials, activists and former rivals. Some say it's the first time they've been taken seriously by a presidential campaign.
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Analysts worried the pandemic would stifle climate action from banks. It did the opposite

The risks of climate change and pressure from investors is driving the finance industry to move away from fossil fuels and improve its transparency.

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Lake Erie’s toxic green slime is getting worse with climate change

Algal blooms are a hazard around the country. But Lake Erie is especially vulnerable to the scourge, and researchers are looking for explanations.

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Marine heatwaves may force fish to flee huge distances: Study - Environment - The Jakarta Post

Fish and other marine life may have to flee thousands of kilometers to escape damaging heatwaves, highlighting the scale of disruption caused by these increasing surges in ocean temperatures.
www.thejakartapost.com

What a sustainable Covid-19 recovery could look like

Bioeconomy - using renewable biological resources - will allow Africa to transform its systems and create a viable economic future.

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In West Africa, climate change and extremism have created a crisis that will impact us all

Mass migration, human-trafficking, drought, famine and terrorism have combined to make the Sahel one of the most dangerous regions of the world right now.

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Global warming is having a costly, and dangerous, impact on key military bases in Alaska

When warming temperatures melted the frozen ground under a munitions repair facility in Alaska years ago, the foundation shifted, causing deep cracks to spread across the thick concrete walls.

www.seattletimes.com

Is this the end for ‘king coal’ in Britain?

As the black stuff burnt in the UK plummets to a level not seen since the early steam age, we trace its long, deep history and the problems left in its wake.

www.theguardian.com

Hurricane season could near record high activity in 2020, NOAA says

The 2020 hurricane season could be one of the more active seasons on record with twice as much storm activity as a normal year, forecasters say. The NOAA increased the chance of an above average hurricane season from 60% to 85%.
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Ocean warming threatens coral reefs and soon could make it harder to restore them

Anyone who's tending a garden right now knows what extreme heat can do to plants. Heat is also a concern for an important form of underwater gardening: growing corals and "outplanting," or transplanting them to restore damaged reefs.
www.ecowatch.com

India plans to fell ancient forest to create 40 new coalfields

Narendra Modi’s dream of a ‘self-reliant India’ comes at a terrible price for its indigenous population
www.theguardian.com

India’s food bowl heads toward desertification

Water-guzzling rice consumes more water than Punjab can recharge. If current irrigation rates continue, the state will empty its groundwater reserves within 20 years.
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Impact of climate change on tropical fisheries would create ripples across the world

Tropical oceans and fisheries are threatened by climate change, generating impacts that will affect the sustainable development of both local economies and communities, and regions outside the tropics through 'telecoupling' of human-natural systems, such as seafood trade and distant-water fishing, says a scientific review from UBC and international researchers.
phys.org

I’m a conservative Christian environmentalist. No, that’s not an Oxymoron.

The G.O.P. may have had a politically expedient change of heart. Better late than never.
www.nytimes.com

Living on Earth: Beyond the Headlines

Peter Dykstra and Host Steve Curwood discuss major tobacco companies' pursuit of a tobacco-based vaccine for COVID-19, then move on to discuss the flooding of the last functioning coal mine in Norway by meltwater from a nearby glacier.

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The President’s green comedy routine

Last Tuesday, we almost had a breakthrough moment on the environment.

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The pandemic has been hell for the coal industry

Big Oil has hogged the spotlight of fossil fuels in decline since the coronavirus pandemic began. Which, sure, it’s news that some of the richest companies on Earth have floundered once everyone decided to stay home.
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Here's what extreme heat looks like: Profoundly unequal

Earth is overheating. This year is poised to be one of the hottest ever. Millions are already feeling the pain, but the agony of extreme heat is profoundly unequal across the globe.
www.nytimes.com

The world is drowning in used face masks. Should we turn them into fuel?

How to deal with the glut of used medical-grade PPE? There aren't any silver bullets, and none of the options are very attractive.

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Wildfire smoke and environmental justice: One little girl’s story

Extreme wildfires fueled by climate change have been spewing more harmful smoke into California's air in recent years. But not everyone is affected equally. Kids like Ta'Kira Dannette Byrd, who live in unhealthy, high-poverty neighborhoods, suffer more.

www.kalw.org

‘Super-pollutant’ emitted by 11 Chinese chemical plants could equal a climate catastrophe

In December 2007, Charles Perilloux, an American chemical engineer, traveled to China to help install inexpensive and game-changing technology at a Chinese chemical plant that was spewing a climate "super-pollutant" into the atmosphere. The emissions quickly fell to near zero.

insideclimatenews.org

Pennsylvania DEP pushes greenhouse gas pact

Pennsylvania would receive $300 million in 2022 from the sale of emissions credits and reduce its emissions of climate changing carbon dioxide by more than 180 million tons over the next decade if it joins the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative.

www.post-gazette.com